Your body is not small.
The total surface area of the human lung could be spread to the height of a brachiosaurus.
If you want to heal,
you must first
find every bruised place.
Your body is not obvious.
It sheds forty thousand cells
every minute,
and who knows how many of those
were the last to remember
the bruising?
Just in case,
count their ancestors
in your census
of pain.
Even a cell can inherit a wound.
Next,
you must tell somebody
where it hurts.
You have to be specific,
and this may take some time.
The human heart beats 100,000 times per day.
If you want to speak to someone about the beat that was broken,
they will want to see it. They will have to search for it.
They will sift through everything you keep in the pockets of those rhythms.
Together, you may find some old cuts.
Add those to your census, too.
Some days it will seem that you are getting more wounded for the searching,
but this is healing.
Step one, the tally.
Step two, the telling.
Step three, the treatment.
All steps happen at the same time, but you have enough elasticity for this.
Your body is not small.
Your body is not slow.
Your body is not helpless.
It will be healing itself
as you search for what needs healing.
A cut will become a scar, a bruise will become a perfectly healthy cell afraid of the dark.
The human body is made of ten trillion DNA cells. You could be stretched to the moon and back again,
1500 times.
In a lifetime, it will feel like this is exactly what has happened to you.
Fifteen
hundred trips to the moon and back,
and boy,
are your cells tired.
Tired, but not small.
You will have to lean into yourself. All of yourself. To the top of the dinosaur and back. To every expanse of you.
Take a close look.
This is a treatment.
You will have to step into a dark room,
give yourself roses and chocolates and promises you can keep.
The cells don’t need to forget the dark.
They just need to forgive it.
This is a treatment.
You will have to apologize for every time you kicked yourself.
A body deserves more than to be afraid of itself, ashamed of itself.
This is a treatment.
In the accounting,
make a note of the muscles
that wish they could cry.
Let them.
Stretch them.
When they sob so hard it feels like aching,
soothe them.
This is a treatment.
Tell someone that you hurt. Where you hurt. How you are healing. Where you beam with delight.
Let them bring more joy to you.
Accept it. There is room.
You have many more trips to the moon to make.
Your body is not small,
but you can only carry so much.
Let the telling empty you of bruises.
Hollow the pockets of your heart of everything except the memory of how you care for you.
Pack your cells with joy until it is what they know best, and what they trust most.
Be abundant.
Joy is light.
You can lift so much more of it than you can imagine.
Imagine.
Imagine.
This is healing.
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Love reading this post ❤️
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Such a wonderful, thoughtful creation. Thank you
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So insightful and every word is true. Loved it.
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Thanks for this really on time.
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This is beautiful. Just what I needed to hear. Thank you!
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I found very close to myself
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I needed to read it
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The tally: deep hip pain.
The telling: Modern lifestyle messed up my moon cycle.
The treatment: Herbs and potions.
Thank you for sharing this healing poem. Peace!
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This is very beautiful 😃🌌
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I felt so good after reading this…Healing is what most of the people need these days! Looking forward to more such bful posts.❤️
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@JPsNo3
beautiful. Simply beautiful.
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Outstanding 💜
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💓💓💓
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this was beautiful thank you for sharing ❤️
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I love it. ♥️
Thanks for sharing, Ra!
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This was a great joy to read.
Thank you
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wow, this was an amazing read
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This calmed me.
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Such an eye opener. This is totally amazing.
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https://amalalhmoud.art.blog/2020/09/27/i-called-it-war-of-letters/
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This is rich writing, and truth. Thanks for sharing.
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It is nice but unfortunately had no effect on me.
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Beautiful. Just what I needed to read tonight.
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Healing in itself is a term so wide to understand… if heal means to fix together broken pieces that will always have sharp edges to hurt…or if healing defines the wound whose stitches are removed but yet they leave scar for life
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When you explain pain in such beautiful terms and in such detail..Pain itself gets all the more charming and it is healing!
And blessed are the ones who could reach out to soothe sad souls with such an imagination..Just the way you did..Many thanks!
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Beautiful to the core!!
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This has filled me up in the most precious way ever. It is beautiful. It is wholesome. It is everything and I am so so thankful💙💙
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The idea of pain and healing being on the cellular level is revolutionary yet completely obvious. Love…
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Reblogged this on The History Ninja and commented:
The idea of pain and healing occurring at the cellular level is revolutionary yet completely obvious. Beautiful poem…
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WOW!🤩
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That’s an insightful message you’ve shared with the world, I appreciate you for that.
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Wow, thank you for sharing! I love the way you brought this sometimes abstract idea of healing into words, into biology, into a practice that in reading is itself, as you say, a treatment.
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Best blog read till now ! And it is so accurate and relatable. I hope I will learn something from it❤️🤡
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Wow, this was beautiful! An amalgam of poetry and science, allowing a vivid imagery. Thank you 🙏
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You will be hurt, you will heal.. Healing starts from within.. And now I know how.. Thank you 🤗
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such a beautiful post, this made me cry. thank you ❤
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Beautiful, beautiful healing…x
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This is it: “You will have to step into a dark room,
give yourself roses and chocolates and promises you can keep.”
Healing begins with you but doesn’t end with you. Thank you for this doses of healing ‘Tally, telling and treatment’.
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Such a great perspective on healing, loved it.
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Seems like i can heal through your lines; lovely written and narration. Keep up the good work.
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This is so beautiful, this poem is written so well. The message you are sending is so powerful and so many people can relate to your work. Thank you for this beautiful piece of writing.
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Great poem
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So true. This post connects to everyone who wants to heal. I have also written something about reunion and healing. You can check my blog here: https://gauravdey.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/al-jabr-reunion-of-broken-hearts/
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